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The above sign is 70 miles south of Pheonix, Arizona. Phoenix has become the kidnapping capital of the United States due to the drug gangs. The sign above warns people to stay away from the area due to the presence of armed criminals and smugglers. This is in the United States Of America. Think about that as you read below how our country is hamstringing it's own law enforcement efforts. ===Judge Susan Bolton of the Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals issued an injunction temporarily blocking major parts of Arizona's new immigration law, SB1070. The disemboweled law goes into effect today, not that it much matters now. Following is some of Bolton's thinking. From the Associated Press:

The Democratic majority finds itself in a pickle. They want to let the Bush "tax cuts for the rich" expire to help close the budget gap caused by the great expansion in federal spending. They want to raise other taxes as well. The problem is, we're in a major recession, with recovery appearing "unusually uncertain," as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress the other day. Even Keynesian economists (the ones Democrats like) will tell you the last thing you should do during a recession is raise taxes, because it removes money from the private sector, lessening consumer demand, thus stifling job growth and recovery. This is especially true when you raise taxes on the wealthy, who are the country's biggest consumers and job creators.

The following chart shows which taxes the liberal majority of the Democratic party wants to raise at the end of the year:

When Shirley Sherrod, a black woman, was fired by the government (not by Fox News or Andrew Breitbart), I thought she got a raw deal. She was fired because the cowardly government feared what was contained in Breitbart's initial video, which allegedly showed Sherrod making racist statements to an NAACP crowd. The government feared what Fox News would say about that video, coming on the heels of the NAACP's grandstanding resolution condemning alleged racism in the Tea Party movement. The NAACP's resolution was itself racist, because it attempted to paint a grassroots movement of millions of Americans seeking fiscal sanity and Constitutional liberty as nothing more than a bunch of bigots. The cowardly NAACP also condemned Sherrod initially, even though Sherrod's allegedly racist comments were made IN FRONT OF THE NAACP. Go figure that one out.

When Sherrod was fired by the government. she was forced to pull her car off the road and resign over the phone immediately, without being able to offer any defense of her actions. That conversation went as follows:

There are some things I just can't take. One of those things is being preached to about the lack of media ethics by the most unethical, lying, pompous, arrogant, smarmy jerk-off ever to grace the boob tube. I'm referring, of course, to MSNBC's propagandistic hack toad, Keith Olbermann (Ubermoron). Watching five minutes of Olby's hate-filled, hypocritical, and imperious over-the-top smack makes me feel dirty. I feel the need to shower in order to remove his foul stench.

An online meeting place for liberal alleged journalists and academics is called, not surprisingly, Journolist. The people over at Tucker Carlson's website, Daily Caller, have acquired the archives of Journolist, and the content of those archives gives us a glimpse into the mindset of the liberal media. It ain't pretty. In fact, it's downright ugly. The alleged reporters on Journolist come from Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon, the New Republic, the Nation, the Washington Independent, etc. They come from pretty much the whole range of the liberal media.

President Obama's 2010 federal budget request had a name. It was titled 'A New Era of Responsibility: Renewing America's Promise.' I'm not kidding. The President actually promoted a budget with a designed annual deficit of well over a trillion dollars as A New Era Of Responsibility. I doubt even George Orwell ever dreamed up anything so Orwellian.

However, the Democrats DID have a plan for responsibility. They had legislation called Pay As You Go (PAYGO). This legislation required that federal expenditures be paid for rather than borrowed. Seeing as how this country is in debt to the tune of $13.1 TRILLION and counting, PAYGO sounded like a great idea, at minimum. President Obama signed the responsible PAYGO legislation into law in February 2010. For the record, PAYGO was also enacted in 1990, extended in 1993, extended again in 1997, expired in 2002, and was enacted again in 2007, prior to this new PAYGO enactment in 2010. Since the 1990 PAYGO enactment, the federal debt of the United States has risen by nearly $10 TRILLION, so you can clearly see how serious our politicians have been about Pay As You Go.

In Ayn Rand's classic novel, Atlas Shrugged, the character of Wesley Mouch is a Washington lobbyist who eventually becomes the country's economic dictator, controlling all commerce and industry. Mouch intentionally destroys free enterprise, thus destroying the opportunities of the common man along with it.

After reading a Wall Street Journal piece by Daniel Henninger, in which Henninger highlights many of the ideas of Dr. Donald Berwick, Obama's recess appointment to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), I believe we have found a real life Wesley Mouch. I find Mouch's, er, I mean, Berwick's ideas to be absolutely chilling. Let me know if you feel the same way. Following are some selected quotes from Dr. Berwick:

I'd also like to congratulate President Obama for passing the $862 billion stimulus package in February 2009. Without it, the oil spill would have been MUCH worse, and we got the added benefit of the stimulus creating 3.5 million jobs, according to the White House's latest

On tuesday, the National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People (NAACP) passed a resolution calling for the Tea Party movement to condemn the alleged racist elements within it's organization. Here's NAACP President Benjamin Jealous:

Today, I ran across an editorial by 2008 Libertarian VP candidate, Wayne Allen Root, called Obama: Bumbling Incompetent...Or Bumbling Marxist ?. In this editorial, Mr. Root lays out a clear step-by-step explanation of how President Obama is going to destroy this country economically. If he is successful, Obama will wreak havoc on the American business sector, cause severe job losses, cause businesses to flee the country, and usher in a second Great Depression as a result. Following are 14 steps Obama wants to take to bring about his reign of terror:

Congressman Paul Kanjorski (D-PA) is a great guy. He really likes to use taxpayer dollars to help people...especially if those people are members of the Kanjorski family. Some years ago, Rep. Kanjorski secured earmarks of $9 million in federal grants for an energy company called Cornerstone Technologies LLC. Cornerstone was run by members of the Kanjorski family, including the Congressman's nephew, Russell Kanjorski (remember his name). Sweet deal for the Kanjorski's. It's good to have friends in high places. Even sweeter, Cornerstone ran it's company out of a building owned by Congressman Paul Kanjorski, so all the rent paid by Cornerstone (which was really paid by the taxpayers) went into the Congressman's pocket.

Unfortunately, the Cornerstone Kanjorski's didn't know how to run an energy company. It went bust in 2003. The $9 million in taxpayer funds went down the drain. Here's a Fox News video recounting the entire sordid tale. Try not to throw up on your computer screen as you watch this, because it is sickening:

I don't know why I'm even surprised anymore at the outrageous actions of this White House. It seems each new day brings a new outrage. They came down against Constitutional freedom of speech in the Citizens United ruling. They came down against the Constitutional right to bear arms in the McDonald ruling. They took 71 days to accept foreign help with the Gulf oil spill. They interfered and hindered local efforts to clean up the oil spill. They dropped a voter intimidation case they had already won against the New Black Panthers because it didn't fit their race-based agenda, according to a DOJ official who resigned over it. The one time this administration does cite the Constitution, they use the Supremacy Clause to sue the state of Arizona for enforcing existing federal law, coming down firmly against the rule of law to favor the illegal immigrants, again because of their agenda. We have a White House who somehow claims to have created 2 million jobs since the stimulus package was implemented, when the actual job numbers show 2.8 million jobs lost since the stimulus went into effect. We have VP Joe Biden and President Obama hypocritically taking credit for the successes in the Iraq War, when Biden and Obama were against the very Surge tactics that created those successes.

These are only a few of the things that have happened recently with the Obama Disinformation Machine. I have some more disinformation to add to the list.===President Obama announced the recess appointment of Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), thus bypassing Senate confirmation hearings for his man. While recess appointments are not unusual, the reasoning of the White House was. White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer said, "Republicans in Congress have made it clear in recent weeks that they were going to stall the nomination as long as they could, solely to score political points. But with the agency facing new responsibilities to protect seniors’ care under the Affordable Care Act, there’s no time to waste with Washington game-playing."

Existing tax law, which is a violation of the founding principles of this country. We are taxed unequally. That is in direct contradiction to "all men are created equal," and also a constitutional violation of equal protection under the law. Today, the main source of that violation is known as the income tax. There is NO reason to tax someone who makes $60,000 at a higher rate than someone who makes $20,000. None. It's discriminatory, and we should not tolerate it. The Founders didn't tolerate such a thing. Until the introduction of the permanent income tax in 1913 (with the passage of the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution), all taxes were required by the Constitution to be apportioned among the states (applied equally). That's how it should be, but with the establishment of the income tax, politicians were able to begin the dishonest political games they play today, where they pit one group of citizens against another, and where they discriminate against one person for the benefit of another. It's no surprise that our country became divided following such bigoted political maneuvers. It was at that point we started to reject 'all men are created equal' in favor of 'I'll vote for whomever gives me the most money.' The income tax was a prescription for the division of our country, class hatred, and greed. It has given rise to such illogical pronunciations as the left-wingers saying the wealthy 'don't pay their fair share' in income taxes, when in reality the wealthy are taxed at 35%, the highest bracket, and pay the lion's share of the taxes in this country. Meantime, the poorer citizens are taxed at less than zero of their incomes, receiving income credits from the government when they don't make enough money. Every working American citizen should pay an equal percentage share toward funding the government of this country. Ideally, it should be a low percentage, say 10%. That would be enough to fund the federal government's proper role, even though not a single Democrat will probably believe me.

A nutshell summary of the Elena Kagan Supreme Court confirmation hearings - a Senator asks her a question, and Kagan does her boring best to evade answering it.

Kagan's not the first nominee to do this, but I'm finding it difficult to even report on this snooze-fest. Here's about the best I can do. The following video clip is Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) asking Kagan if the government has the right to force people to eat certain foods. Her evasive answer is enlightening: